The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKED

Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information

In swing states, Biden paid average ad rates of $34 compared with Trump’s average of $17 in July and August

Google’s black box algorithm controls which political emails land in your main inbox. For 2020 presidential candidates, the differences are stark.

An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income and least-White neighborhoods slow internet service for the same price as...

Even accounting for factors lenders said would explain disparities, people of color are denied mortgages at significantly higher rates than White people

The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take workers’ tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income

The investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup

Google’s black box algorithm controls which political emails land in your main inbox. For 2020 presidential candidates, the differences are stark.

Data-driven investigations of tech and how it influences society

The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook

Data-driven investigations of tech and how it influences society

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

The Markup found services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block sending sensitive data

The Markup, dedicated to investigating technology and its effect on society, will be led by two former ProPublica journalists. Craig Newmark gave $20 million to help fund the operation.

Insurers are supposed to price based on risk, but Allstate’s algorithm put a thumb on the scale

Recent technological developments are transforming the basic terms of worker compensation. Rather than receive a salary or predictable hourly wage, workers in the on-demand economy are often paid…

We conducted an experiment with a new email address to try to figure out how Gmail's sorting algorithm worked without user input

An investigation by The Markup found racial disparities in L.A.’s intake system for unhoused people

The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements

Data-driven investigations of tech and how it influences society

A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences

As Elon Musk sends Twitter into chaos, we’re sharing what we picked up about Mastodon as we selected a server

Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information

Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods

Despite committing to dismantling systemic racism, YouTube blocks advertisers from using many racial justice and cultural identity terms to target videos for ads

While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in “pseudoscience”

An investigation by The Markup and STAT found 49 out of 50 telehealth websites sharing health data via Big Tech’s tracking tools

Vista Equity Partners has been buying up software used in schools. Parents want to know what the companies do with kids’ data

Stanford study found AI detectors are biased against non-native English speakers

The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page

Our investigative series on Facebook trackers continues to have impact

The online giant gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don’t know are connected to Amazon

The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel

The full extent of how Facebook tracks people on the web is not understood—but you can help uncover what data the tech giant is gathering about you

After success in California, gig economy companies are looking to pass their own labor laws in the Bay State. But they may be in for a battle

Many well-known White supremacist and White nationalist terms and slogans were not blocked

The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook account

The Markup found the state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color

The Markup welcomes Lam to our team of investigative reporters

Mortgage companies affiliated with the nation’s three largest home builders were at least twice as likely to deny applicants of color as similar White borrowers

AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered the worst deals to lower-income areas and communities of color across the country—while charging the same for faster speeds in...

Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data

The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook account

The impact of an investigative collaboration with Mozilla Rally

The first large-scale, crowdsourced study that monitors how Meta tracks people across the internet

Will the AMP format die as a result?